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Why Are We Here?

Season 1 Episode 3

The volunteers pose an important question about our role in the universe.

World-famous scientist Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of fun challenges to show them how to think like a genius. Can they work out why they exist at all? Is it destiny or pure chance?

AIR DATE 5/25/16

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    Join Professor Stephen Hawking as he reveals our true potential in a series that challenges a selection of volunteers and viewers to think like the greatest geniuses of the past and answer some of humanity’s toughest and most enduring questions.

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